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Mark Sanders wrote:
1. All of the text in Windows explorer with regards to the
external drive are blue. For example, the label "Disk (F:\)" in the "folders
pane" is blue, the text for folders in the right pane are blue etc. Does
this mean something?
I think you will find that Windows has formatted the drive and enabled compression. To test this Right Click on the F:\ and then click on Properties. I think you will find that at the bottom there will be a selected check box next to Compress drive to save disk space. If you unselect this and click Apply and wait a while the compression capablity will be turned off and the colour will return to black.
The blue colouring is caused by a selection made in Folder Options. Under the View tab is a selection Display compressed files and folders with alternate color.
All in all harmless but best to turn it off as you have 80GB anyway and if you connect it to another computer it may not be able to read it.
Mark Sanders wrote:
2. If I start my computer with the hard drive connected
and turned on Windows will run Check Disk in an endless loop. So, I have to
start the computer, then when Windows is all booted up I can then turn on
the hard drive.
No idea, sounds weird though.
Michael Martin
Australia
mjm68@tpg.com.au
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Windows file explorer in blue means "shared"
The other thing ??????
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No. In NT/2K/XP, it means "compressed to save space".
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Is there a way to stop an application from trying to reinstall? I have applied the patch for MSDE and everytime I register a server for DCOM the box pops up trying to install MSDE. the thing is MSDE runs fine and is fully installed.
John
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By default, XP HE only has simple file sharing enabled. The user can then manually enable regular file sharing. In my installation program, I would like to determine if this is the case, and then tell the user how to enable regular file sharing.
Is there any way to programatically detect if simple file sharing is the only method available? I think the settings are stored in the SAM portion of the registry - so that is out. But I thought there might be a way to infer this information.
Thanks,
Mike
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I need to do an install of a VFW codec and because of the particular circumstances I need it to happen via a RunOnce registry entry.
The problem is that command line I put in the registry entry doesn't work but the same command line works fine from a shell.
"rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\progra~1\path\to\my\inffile.inf"
I get a message that it
"Cannot find the file "rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\progra~1\path\to\my\inffile.inf" (or one of its components).
What am I screwing up?
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Remove the quotes in the registry entry. The message is saying that Windows is treating the entire command line as one filename.
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Hmmm. That's curious. I was sure that I read somewhere in the MSDN pages that the entry had to have quotes around it.
Oh well. I'll give that a go. Thanks.
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Actually, I think I read the same thing. But just looking at the message it's giving you gives me the impression that it's interpreting the whole string as a filename. It's worth a try without the quotes; if that doesn't work, I'd even venture a try with just the filename in quotes and the parameters listed after without them. It probably won't work any worse than it does now.
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Hello im on Win2k, and i would like to get/change users password through Visual C++. I tried NetUserChangePassword( domain, user, oldpwd, newpwd ) but it returns me a 'Cannot access domain info', so i tried NetUserChangePassword( NULL, NULL, oldpwd, newpwd ) which returns me 'Invalid password' everytime. sigh
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Try using RunAs to execute it with Admin priveleges.
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dont repeat the messages!
I was born intelligent
Education ruined me!.
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I have a client who is installing an NT Service on a W2K server in a Novell network. The can install but are unable to start the service. I don't have any Novell experience...yet!
My gut reaction is that Novell may require the user the service runs under to have some special permissions. Any ideas or guidence on where to look to solve this?
Thanks,
ed
Regulation is the substitution of error for chance.
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Bull it has recovered. Recently I started to get this error message…
Windows has detected and recovered from a device failure. Please save your work and reboot to restore full functionality. OK?
No, it's not ok darn it. If you were so darn smart to detect and RECOVER from the error can you kindly please tell me WHAT CAUSED it?
This error leaves my system running but in a video mode that I would not wish on my mothers computer (320X200 @ 16 colors).
Anyone have any ideas?
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-6VTXD
CPU: Dual PIII 1Ghz
RAM: 2Gig
Chipset: VIA Apollo Pro 133T
Sound: On board AC'97
Video: All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500
OS: Windows XP SP1
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George Carlin wrote:
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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Sorry, I can't help you out, but:
Ray Cassick wrote:
Windows has detected and recovered from a device failure. Please save your work and reboot to restore full functionality.
If the stupid thing has recovered, why should you reboot? I remember getting a similar one:
"Windows has recovered from an undetected error."
Smart. Real smart. How did it know there's an error if the error is undetected? Plus, how could it recover?
Regards,
Vikram.
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It sounds like Windows detected a corrupted video driver and replaced it. Rebooting is supposed to unload the damaged code and replace it with the fresh copy. It rarely works. Try re-installing the video card software from the original CD or, better yet, download the latest version from the manufacturer's website.
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It tolls for thee..."
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Yeah, I was going to do that anyway. Actually it is time for my yearly reinstall of the system. I was just hoping that there would be some cool hidden log file somewhere that would tell me WAHT was broken.
It is so strange... All the software that I build is fully instrumented so that I can get logs from people and know exactly how the app was running at the time of a crash. I really wonder why Windows does not have something similar. Sure there is SQL tracing and Tapi tracing, but nothing in the OS itself.
Hmmmmm. Maybe if I loaded the debug symbols and attached via a remote debugger.
Paul Watson wrote:
"At the end of the day it is what you produce that counts, not how many doctorates you have on the wall."
George Carlin wrote:
"Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things."
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
If the physicists find a universal theory describing the laws of universe, I'm sure the a**hole constant will be an integral part of that theory.
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Hi All,
I'm confused. Can someone please let me know the difference (if any) between PeopleSoft CRM CIC and Vantive CRM 8.6?
I'm doing some research for my company, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time and help,
Nick
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Any ideas on how to retrieve the hostname of a Windows server or workstation on the local workgroup or domain FROM the ip address only? What is the SDK/API function for this?
I want to use InitiateSystemShutdown() and other SDK functions which take the hostname in the format "\\name", but I only have the IP address to start with.
BOOL InitiateSystemShutdown(
LPTSTR lpMachineName, // computer name
LPTSTR lpMessage, // message to display
DWORD dwTimeout, // length of time to display
BOOL bForceAppsClosed, // force closed option
BOOL bRebootAfterShutdown // reboot option
);
The IP address is static and is on the LAN, so firewalls/proxies/NAT/etc. are not an issue. My local computer will not have any hostnames configured in its hosts/LMHOSTS, and will (probably) have to browse or query the remote computer.
thanks in advance! (sorry if my terminology is not completely Microsoft-esque)
Andrew
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Use inet_addr and gethostbyaddr.
Example:
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
WSADATA d;
WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2,2), &d);
char szIP[] = "1.2.3.4";
long ip = inet_addr(szIP);
HOSTENT *pHostent = gethostbyaddr((char*)&ip,4,AF_INET);
if (pHostent)
{
printf("%s is %s", szIP, pHostent->h_name);
}
return 0;
}
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I need to create 20 users on 2 pc which run win 98. Also I want all the users to share same policy and tweakUI settings. Is there any way of automating this kind of user creation?
thanks
(sorry for my bad english)
Cihan Karadag
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Lately, Windows Explorer in XP has started crashing on me, and there seems to be no apparent pattern to the crashes. It might happen when I select a file, or select a folder, this morning it crashed when I clicked on the Start button. It does not seem to be linked to any particular file type either.
After digging around in the event logs, I noticed that for (almost) every crash event that is logged, there are a number of events related to the "Remote Access Connection Manager" service, stating the the service: 1. "has entered the stopped state", 2. "been sent a start control", 3. "has entered a running state"
It appears that the two are related. How? I don't know. It may be that the Explorer crash cause the service to stop/start, or the service is crashing and taking Explorer with it, or they may not be related at all.
I reinstalled SP1 a couple of days ago and all seemed fine, until this morning when it happened again.
I was wondering if anyone has experienced (XP = experience  ) this and/or knows of anything else I can try, before I get fed up and reinstall.
Clones are people two.
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I don't have a lot of experience with XP. Most of my work is done on W2K. However, I have found that at least once a year, blow out your entire windows system and start over. You'll be amazed at how fast your system seems when you do this. The down side is that you have to reload all of the patches and your software again.
Of course it goes without saying that you should backup all of your data before you blow your system out. One way to make the process less painful is to reload your entire system. Apply any patches and install any software that you will ALWAYS want on the system. Don't do any work on your system until you have loaded everything you will need for a base system. Once you have your base system installed and configured, make a duplicate copy on a second hard drive with something like Ghost. Remove the ghosted drive and set it aside. Now whenver your system becomes really slow, you simply install the ghosted "master" drive, backup your data to it, and then copy the "master" onto your operating drive using ghost. This boils your system reload down into a couple of hours instead of days or weeks in my case.
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Good advice, I like to do this myself (clean install every so often), but I've only been running this installation for about 4 month now. I've previously run W2K for over a year with no problems whatsover, maybe I should go back...
And each time I do a reinstall I say "this time I'll image the disk and keep a backup", but never do
Clones are people two.
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